Comment 278 for bug 727064

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In , jvillalo (jvillalo-redhat-bugs) wrote :

(In reply to comment #232)
> (In reply to comment #231)
> > So might the Giant Flying Spaghetti Monster. We don't work on the basis of what
> > might, theoretically, be happening. Provide concrete examples or just stop
> > extending this report to no good reason.
> >
> > I see actual useful discussion between people who know what the hell they're
> > doing happening in the upstream bug; I'm all in favour of simply following
> > whatever is decided there in the downstream package.
>
> See the title of the upstream bug:
> "memcpy acts randomly (and differently) with overlapping areas"
>
> _That_ is what is happening, it's not hypothetical, there's 125 people affected
> by this issue and following it, and upstream has accepted that indeed it's an
> issue.
>
> How about we turn the papers; _you_ come up with proof that all the memcpy's
> happening in all the binaries in all packages of Fedora are correct and
> unaffected by this change, and thus there's no security issue. Can you really
> do that?

To go even more off tangent. That is the kind of logic used to say there is a god. Since you can't prove there is a god there must be a god. And god could be whichever diety you like (Flying Spaghetti Monster, Thor, Isis, etc). Basically your request is realistically impossible.